On Sunday 28 April 2013 17:29:54 Jon Elson did opine: > Eric Keller wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > >> Is there a consensus about BeagleBone vs. Raspberry Pi? > > > > I think it's a no-brainer myself. I have a Raspi, but I just don't > > see it competing with the bbb > > OK, this was my take on the hardware, but there was so much RPi > discussion here, I thought that might be the way development was headed. > I support the Beagle direction, too, and hope much of what I have > learned on the original Beagle will port over to the Bone. > > So, if I were going to make something for the Bone, should it be > like a PC parallel port, or some other kind of breakout board? > I'd like to make something that allows my parport-connected > devices to be used with the Bone, but maybe others would > rather have a much "wider" I/O device, maybe a couple > dozen inputs and outputs from the PRU-accessible pins. > > So, any thoughts would be welcome. > > Jon
Not that I have a dog in this fight Jon, I don't expect to have to replace these atom's I bought anytime soon, but it seems to me it should allow the more or less std 26 pin IDC connector to be used so it could plug straight into our existing BOB's. Here of course I am assuming the .hal file could put the right signals on the right pins. That generally is up to us anyway. Perhaps 2 of the connectors on yours, for those with more I/O needs than one EPP port can supply. But I haven't studied it well enough to know if the PRU has enough I/O to fill up the 2nd connector. That would be pure icing on the cake IMO if it did. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic. -- Lily Tomlin A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_apr _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
